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Nomination: Furia
Saied Méndez Yamile. Furia. 2020. 357p. Algonquin Young Readers, $17.95 (9781616209919). Gr. 7-up.
Set in Argentina, Camila Hassan dreams of playing professional fútbol, but will society and her love for Diego stop her from pursuing her passion?
Nomination: Dress Coded
Nomination: The Woman’s Hour: Our Fight for the Right to Vote (Adapted for Young Readers)
Weiss, Elaine. The Woman’s Hour: Our Fight for the Right to Vote (Adapted for Young Readers). 2020. 208p. Penguin/Random House, $17.99 (9780593125182). Gr. 5-up.
The Woman’s Hour recounts the tense fight for American women’s suffrage as the Tennessee legislature became the 36th and final state to ratify the 19th amendment.
Nomination: Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math
Atkins, Jeannine. Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math. 2020. 305p. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $17.99 (9781534460683). Gr. 5-6.
This book in verse explores the lives of seven real-life women in history who didn’t let gender discrimination prohibit them from pursuing careers involving math.
Nomination: Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties
Nomination: A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta Bead
Turk, Evan. A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta Bead. 2020. 48p. Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (9781534410343). PreS-Gr.3.
Despite being told that girls can’t blow glass, Marietta learns the artform of glassblowing from her father and rediscovers the technique of creating rosettas.
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